Malignant epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the ear

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in Ireland. Our patient presented for removal of a cutaneous lesion on his ear. The histopathological diagnosis was malignant epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. It is very rare for this to present primarily as a cutaneous lesion. Here, we discuss the management o...

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Autores principales: Senaratne, Radha, Casey, Máire-Caitlín, Kelly, Jack L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8907414/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35280049
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Casey, Máire-Caitlín
Kelly, Jack L
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description Skin cancer is the most common cancer in Ireland. Our patient presented for removal of a cutaneous lesion on his ear. The histopathological diagnosis was malignant epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. It is very rare for this to present primarily as a cutaneous lesion. Here, we discuss the management of this patient and the surveillance he required. It is important to consider alternative histological diagnoses in patients presenting with cutaneous lesions and how this affects management and prognosis.
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spelling pubmed-89074142022-03-10 Malignant epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the ear Senaratne, Radha Casey, Máire-Caitlín Kelly, Jack L J Surg Case Rep Case Report Skin cancer is the most common cancer in Ireland. Our patient presented for removal of a cutaneous lesion on his ear. The histopathological diagnosis was malignant epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. It is very rare for this to present primarily as a cutaneous lesion. Here, we discuss the management of this patient and the surveillance he required. It is important to consider alternative histological diagnoses in patients presenting with cutaneous lesions and how this affects management and prognosis. Oxford University Press 2022-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8907414/ /pubmed/35280049 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac062 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2022. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Malignant epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the ear
title_fullStr Malignant epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the ear
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